Events in Moscow
Events in Moscow
The III Moscow Summer Music Festival ‘Zaryadye’ Opens in June
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The III Moscow Summer Music Festival ‘Zaryadye’ will take place from 2 June to 6 July. The festival will feature opera singers Ildar Abdrazakov and Erwin Schrott, conductor Valery Gergiev, musicians Denis Matsuev, Roby Lakatos and other world-renowned stars.
The festival will open with the programme ‘Opera and Tango’, performed by Erwin Schrott, a global opera star, and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Ivan Rudin. Additionally, audiences can look forward to performances by the Symphony Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and the Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. S. Pushkin.
One of the key themes will be the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II). On 21 June, the Oleg Lundstrem State Jazz Orchestra will present the concert ‘Memory of the Heart’, which will feature instrumental arrangements of Soviet wartime songs that have become symbols of the era.
A highlight of the festival will be the performance by Hungarian violinist Roby Lakatos on 29 June. Carmen Rizzo and the Bulgarian National Choir will showcase electronic reinterpretations of Bulgarian folk songs.
A distinctive feature of the music festivals at Zaryadye Hall is the festival orchestras—ensembles specially assembled for landmark concerts. In 2023, the Festival Symphony Orchestra made its debut at the I Moscow Summer Music Festival ‘Zaryadye’. During the II Moscow Summer Music Festival ‘Zaryadye’, a milestone was the creation of the Festival Baroque Orchestra. In 2025, audiences will, for the first time, experience the Festival Choir, which will perform in Verdi’s Requiem.
Tickets for the III Moscow Summer Music Festival ‘Zaryadye’ are being sold in stages, and the programme is being updated.
The full schedule can be found on the Official Webpage
Address: Bldg. 4, Vl. 6, ul. Varvarka, Moscow
Jewels! The brilliance of the Russian court
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The exhibition "Jewels! The brilliance of the Russian court" is open at the Exhibition complex of the State Historical Museum until 12 May, 2025.
The exhibition will combine masterpieces of jewellery art, luxurious ball gowns and portraits from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. The Russian Imperial Court was famous all over the world for its incredible sophistication and wealth. The State Hermitage Museum houses one of the largest art collections in the world, and the jewellery collection occupies a special place in it. For centuries, it was created as an imperial one, and only the best products of domestic and foreign craftsmen were included in it.
The exhibition at the Historical Museum will feature jewelry from the 17th to early 20th centuries, as collectibles, accessories and memory objects. Jewels invariably attract the attention of visitors with their amazing delicacy of work, refinement of forms, nobility and rarity of precious stones, as well as the opportunity to immerse themselves in the centuries-old history of jewellery, preserved by its brilliant "eyewitnesses".
For more details visit the Official Webpage
Address: Revolution Square, house 2/3
SVOYASI. The Path of Modern Russian Art
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The exhibition ‘SVOYASI: The Path of Modern Russian Art’ is open at the State Historical Museum until 11 August 2025.
SVOYASI presents a collection of works of modern Russian art. The theme of the exhibition at the State Historical Museum is ‘The House as a Space of Being.’ It is based on the understanding of outer and inner space, which defines key worldviews. Seventy-nine artists, designers and craftsmen from various cities across Russia are taking part in the exhibition. Each artist, who has been carefully curated, brings their own statement, strong traditions of craftsmanship and a truly deep vision to the project. All the exhibits will either be presented to a wide audience for the first time or have been specially created for this exhibition.
Each object tells the personal story of its creator, conveying a direct experience of contact with tradition. At the same time, within the exhibition space, works of art placed in a particular context acquire new meaning and become the key to recognising the common cultural code. In the Russian North, the house was called ‘khoromy’, akin to a temple, which indicates the sacredness of this place. It is the concentration of all that is most valuable to a person. The hut becomes a model of the cosmos, corresponding to ideas of order as opposed to chaos.
The semantic architecture of the exhibition is organised according to the structure of the hut: ‘kryl’tso’, ‘senii’, ‘gornitsa’, ‘suseki’, ‘Babi kut’, ‘red corner’… The functional purpose of each space is considered in relation to various spheres of modern human life. The emerging analogies reveal the true significance of certain images.
For more details visit the Official Webpage
Address: Red Square, 1. Entrance No. 3
